7943

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 7943
• Author: Getches, D. H.
• Title: As Wildlife Goes, So Goes The West, ‎(for the annual meeting of The Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies)‎.
• USFW Year: 1985.
• USFW - Doc Type: July 17, 1985.
• Copyright Material: NO

C Tl-1f: \'JILDERNESS FISHFRr~EN SHOULD QEALIZE THAT IF
WILDERNESS IS GETTING TOO CROVIDED FOR HIM, HE IS PART
OF THE CRo.-'/D.

THE FACT IS THAT WE ARE USING, ENJOYING, CONSUMING AND
LITERALLY LOVING OUR ~'lESTERN RESOURCES TO DEATH. HE ARE ON THE \..ERGE
O~ Ell ~U N,\ TI NG THE \./EST' S t~^ I N ATTRACT ION.

THE PUBLIC LOOKS FOR SO:'-1mNE TO RLN~E WHEN ^ RI \..ER FLOODS
TLfE I R H()f.E 1 N THJ: FLOOD PLA J N: 1~1HEN THI=:PE J Sf\! I T EN0IJGI-l "JA TEQ TO 13U I L D
THEIR HOUSE IN THE DESERT: ~'lHEN LARGE AND HUNGRY ELK HERDS EAT THEIR
HlW STACKS: "JHEN T41:Y SPr:NnALL WEEKEND AND A THOUSAND D()LLN~S M!D
CAN'T BhG AN ELK: ~'JHEN NONSENSE O\fR A 404 PER,,",IT DELAYS \-'JORK NEEDED
TO PROTECT ^ HAY FIELD FRO'"' F:ROSIOr,!: ~'IHE!\I THF.Y C/I,N'T CATCH A FISH
BECAUSE THEIR FA\O~ITE STREAM HAS BEEN CHANNELIZED. THEY BLAME
DE \ELOPERS, THE FEDS, THE BUREAUCRATS, THE F.f\lVIROS -- THE OTHER G!!,(.

I RELIE \f THAT THIS FINGER POINTING, THIS BLAME FIXING, IS

THE FNEMY OF sn.JND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT. A DECADE OF LEGAL

CONFRONTATION OVER DE \fLOPMENT AND PRESERW\TION HAS GI \..EN US NO CLEAR

WINNERS -- EXCEPT PERHAPS L~f(ERS. As A MEMBER OF THE BAD, I

RECOGNIZE THAT THIS ISN1T NECESSARILY BAD. BuT AS ONE vJHO RE\..ERES

NATURAL RESOURCES Il\M TROUBLED.

To BE GOOD STEWARDS AND GOOD PUBLIC SER'ANTS I THINK THAT

WILDlIFE MANAGERS MUST ADOPT lWO IMPORTANT GOALS:

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